Monday, 27 January 2014

Tuesday, 21 January 2014

Finally got the chain run cock on, and sorted how to get the wheel correct. As it turns out a 2mm spacer and moving the rim 6mm on the spokes solves all and everything is perfect - now to get on with the fun part!

And yep - it's moved into the lounge to keep warm....every step closer to getting the blue off of that frame is a step closer to happiness!

Saturday, 30 November 2013

Scouting for a new project bike.
The T110 Desert Sled is nearing completion, a few more weeks but everything is there.
The BSA i bought wasn't for me so that got quickly flipped on the bay of evil.
I've now for very unfortunate reasons gained a lot of time on my hands and need to keep busy - so if you have something british and are willing to sell, get in touch!

Sunday, 24 November 2013

Gorden needed some parts i had, and I don't need much of an excuse to head over and see what he's currently got in his garage of dreams.

His latest acquisitions......TRW as once owned by Triumph themselves and used by the white helmets back in the day, a jaw droppingly gorgeous BSA 750 sidevalve V twin, a few more Scotts and his always lovely Triumph Outfit.

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"That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. There's no part in it, no shape in it, that is not out of someone's mind — number three tappet is right on too. One more to go. This had better be it — .I've noticed that people who have never worked with steel have trouble seeing this...that the motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon. They associate metal with given shapes...pipes, rods, girders, tools, parts...all of them fixed and inviolable, and think of it as primarily physical. But a person who does machining or foundry work or forge work or welding sees "steel" as having no shape at all. Steel can be any shape you want if you are skilled enough, and any shape but the one you want if you are not. Shapes, like this tappet, are what you arrive at, what you give to the steel. Steel has no more shape than this old pile of dirt on the engine here. These shapes are all out of someone's mind. That's important to see. The steel? Hell, even the steel is out of someone's mind. There's no steel in nature. Anyone from the Bronze Age could have told you that. All nature has is a potential for steel. There's nothing else there. But what's "potential"? That's also in someone's mind! — Ghosts"